Feels like an app
Floating cards, liquid motion and seamless page changes. Pages render in a few milliseconds and stay quick on phones.
Every feature, in the box
No paid add-ons, no feature tiers, no plugins to hunt for. One licence gets all of this, and every feature that ships later.
For members
Fast, friendly and familiar from the first visit.
Install it like an app
Members add your forum to their home screen. It opens full screen with your icon and an offline page.
Never lose a reply
Drafts save as you type, on the server and on the device, so a closed tab or a dead battery loses nothing.
Threaded replies
Threads read top to bottom, and any post can be answered directly. Replies nest under it and every branch collapses with a click.
Reactions, mentions and quotes
16 emoji reactions, @mentions that alert people, and quote-to-reply on any post.
Prefixes, tags and Solved
Coloured thread prefixes, up to five tags per thread, and a Best answer card so questions show Solved in lists.
Honest edits
Edited posts say when and by whom, and the author and moderators can open every earlier version.
Shoutbox and who's online
A live shoutbox on the forum home, plus who's online and who's reading each thread.
Watch anything
Follow a thread or a whole forum. Alerts on the site, plus email right away or as a daily digest.
Search that keeps up
Full-text search with ranking, filters and highlights, built in. No Elasticsearch to run.
Ignore and privacy
Hide someone's posts and messages with one click. Private messages and profile privacy built in.
Polls
Single or multiple choice, timed, with live results.
For every kind of community
The features vBulletin made famous, plus the ones people expect now.
Reputation, ranks and name colors
Rep blocks, rank ladders, custom titles, name colors, banners and signatures.
Achievements
Badges members earn for posting, helping and showing up, with an Admin page to make your own.
Rich embeds
Paste a YouTube or Twitch link and it becomes a video card. Videos load only when pressed, so nobody is tracked just by reading.
Sign in the easy way
Google, Apple, X, Discord and Steam sign-in and account linking, built in.
Discord, both ways
A two-way bridge links a forum to a Discord forum channel (replies, edits and deletes flow both ways), role sync maps Discord roles to forum groups and supporter plans, and you can import a Discord server's history.
Free official plugins
Made by us, signed, and included with every licence at no extra cost. Add only what your community needs.
Events
A community calendar for meetups, classes, launches and watch parties, with RSVPs, reminders and times in each viewer's own time zone. Contests and jams get a secret theme, a submission window, voting and ranked results.
Showcase
Members give their projects, builds or creations their own page with screenshots, links and updates the community can follow.
Downloads
Files, guides and resources with versions, changelogs and download counts.
Gallery
Member photo albums with batch upload, in-browser shrinking and thumbnails, photo metadata stripped, likes and comments, and public or members-only albums.
Clans & LFG
Teams, clubs and guilds with rosters, roles and a tag on posts, plus a board for finding people to team up with.
Live Streams
A slim Live now bar when members stream on Twitch or YouTube, LIVE badges on posts and a page of every live stream.
Server Status
Live status, ping, uptime and player counts for your community's servers and websites.
Keys & Playtests
Give out codes, invites and beta access: first come, first served or a fair draw, one per member.
Quest
A forum RPG. Posting earns XP and gold, levels show on every post, gold buys gear in the shop, and members duel each other and climb the leaderboards.
Gamer IDs
For gaming communities: Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and more on profiles and next to posts.
For moderators
Keep it friendly without living in the queue.
Spam stops at the door
Trust levels, a moderation queue for new members' first posts, rate limits and email verification that turns on by itself when mail works.
Smart reports
Weighted reports can hide a post automatically until a moderator looks. One queue for reports, flags and approvals.
Warnings that escalate
Infraction points, automatic temporary bans at thresholds, and appeals members can file themselves.
Staff security
Staff must use two-factor sign-in, sensitive settings ask you to confirm it's you, sessions are hashed and saved keys are encrypted.
Trash and audit log
Deleted content goes to a trash you can restore from, and every staff action is logged.
For owners
A full admin panel that explains itself.
Two-minute setup
One Docker command, then a short setup wizard in your browser. No database to create.
Switch without losing anything
Import from vBulletin 3 to 6, XenForo 1.5 and 2, phpBB 3 and MyBB 1.8: members, passwords, posts, PMs, attachments, reputation and old links.
Zero maintenance
Nightly backups, a health page in plain words, and one-click updates that back up first and roll back on failure.
Grow it
A Growth page shows unanswered threads, new members who never posted and who went quiet, so you know what to do today.
Switch off what you don't need
Admin › Features turns optional modules off, from the shoutbox to reactions, polls, tags and the API. Their pages, scripts and styles disappear, and switching back on restores everything.
Make it yours
Community and Studio looks, Pearl and Night themes, six accent colors, custom CSS, free store themes, and branding removal included.
Branding, one page
Admin › Branding swaps every logo and icon: header and footer logo, tab icon, rank, group, badge and board icons, rank pips and rep bar blocks. Each has Reset to default.
Permissions that make sense
A grid of groups by what they can do. Set site defaults once, then override per forum only where needed.
Found on Google
Canonical URLs, sitemaps, forum-thread schema markup and link preview cards for Discord and social sites.
API and webhooks
A read API with keys and signed webhooks for new members, threads and posts.
Your community pays for itself
Money tools with no cut taken by us.
Supporter plans
Monthly or yearly supporter tiers through your own Stripe account, with perks like name colors, bigger signatures and no ads.
Ad slots
Paste your ad code into three slots. Supporters and staff never see ads.
No platform fee
What your members pay goes to you. Murof never takes a percentage.
See how that compares
Side by side with XenForo, vBulletin, Discourse, phpBB and MyBB.